Real‐Time Simulations of Microgrids: Industrial Case Studies
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Abstract
Microgrids require multiple tiers of control and protection to function as both a seamless part of the utility grid and as resilient independent networks capable of supplying local critical loads. The real-time simulation allows engineers to model the behavior of microgrids over a large frequency range in real-time. This allows real microgrid control and protection, as well as physical DERs and their converters, to be connected to the simulated network and tested to significantly reduce risk and improve performance prior to deployment ( https://www.rtds.com/applications/microgrids-renewable-energy/). Power electronic converters are widely accepted as energy conversion in microgrids and system integration. This presents a significant challenge for controller hardware-in-the-loop (CHIL) testing on the real-time digital simulator, especially for high-frequency switching converters. To ensure the correct functionality of the designed systems, a high-fidelity converter model should be developed in the Real-Time Simulator (RTS). This chapter proposed a new universal converter model (UCM) for the RTS. The UCM adopts the descriptor state-space (DSS) method to guarantee numerical stability and power balance. The switching function provides more flexibility to the converter model. It can accept the regular/improved firing pulse [] or the modulation waveforms directly, which can be referred to as the detailed switching converter model and averaged converter model respectively. Also with a predictive resistive switching algorithm, the converter could be represented properly in the blocked mode. With the implementation of the new model in a Real-Time Digital Simulator (RTDS), an aircraft microgrid system and the Banshee microgrid system are demonstrated to show the feasibility of RTDS for the industrial case studies. The aircraft microgrid is simulated in the SubStep environment with several microseconds due to the higher frequency switching requirements. The banshee microgrid system can be run in a larger time step environment with 50 μ s, as the converter can be represented with modulation waveform inputs which are equal to the average model.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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